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I have borrowed this haiku game from another forum the main theme is humour in this one


The last line of the previous person's haiku becomes the first line of the next person's haiku.


a traditional haiku is simply a 5-7-5 syllable format, and for our purposes here, we'll bow to these old gods.


I'll start with a haiku inspired by Robert Frost's poem entitled October:

Morning wind travels
through October's yellow noon;
sunset, red leaves fall.

The last line of my haiku becomes the first of the next.

Sunset, red leaves fall

sunset, red leaves fall
summer's rusted memory
fading to twilight

fading to twilight
wings of a lark become dark
in the yard a bark

In the yard a bark
of cold wet rough smooth white birch
catching the moonlight

Catching the moonlight
With the tips of his fingers
Silence fills the air

silence fills the air
and lightning strikes between trees
as we fall within.

as we fall within
let not our desires contain
autum winter spring

JUST inbetween this i want to say HI to D Ok and hope i meet her,......................

Hi Jimbo

Hope we see you on Thursday.

Dang it, D! I thought you'd come up with something to follow autumn winter spring.
curse curse curse
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ha ha ha

Autumn Winter Spring
I offer you my heat 'til
Summer comes again

damellon wrote:Autumn Winter Spring
I offer you my heat 'til
Summer comes again

summer comes again
a seasonal tradition
like school massacres

Lion of Lions wrote:
summer comes again
a seasonal tradition
like school massacres

that run down your face
so like an exquisite corpse
autumn death mask time


(please note that the last person misspelt mascara)

(please note that the last person misspelt mascara)

mickey_one ~ The previous entry's last line is supposed to be carried over to be your first line... you get another chance .


~ Lizzy

mickey_one wrote:

Lion of Lions wrote:
summer comes again
a seasonal tradition
like school massacres

that run down your face
so like an exquisite corpse
autumn death mask time


(please note that the last person misspelt mascara)

The rules around here are that you use the last line of the previous verse
so that you would write something like

like school mascaras
so, like an exquisite corpse
snow, death-masks autumn

or something like that or likely better